"The Russian Interior Ministry employees and the Russian Federal Security Service have found an arms depot and an object, which has all the characteristics of a self-made bomb, in a caf· in Sergiyev Posad near Moscow in a series of planned measures to fight illegal trade in arms. The arsenal’s owners have been established and detained," she said adding that operations designed to thwart illegal trade in arms were proceeding as previously planned.

Media reports that a terror attack had been prevented in the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra appeared earlier on Wednesday. Sergei Balchuk, the press secretary of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, located in Sergiyev Posad, denied reports, which appeared earlier on Wednesday, that a terror attack had been prevented in the Lavra.